RFP - Consultant for Arduino Training and Competition

Request for Proposal (RFP)

Arduino Training and Competition

 

A.     Background

 

SMART Lab Program is a university partnership program between USAID and Yayasan Putera Sampoerna (Putera Sampoerna Foundation – PSF), in collaboration with Intel Indonesia Corporation, the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) and Tufts University, with the ultimate goal to improve STEM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) at high school level in Indonesia through establishing four STEM model schools, training and preparing 500 STEM teachers and inspiring 6.000 students. PSF has assigned Universitas Siswa Bangsa Internasional – Sampoerna University (SU) to manage the operationalization of the SMART Lab Program.

In order to support this program’s goal, the SMART Lab Program takes initiative to organize arduino training for basic, intermediate and advanced levels, not to mention arduino competition.

Arduino training for basic, intermediate, and advanced levels is designed for selected and interested students from four pilot schools and non-pilot schools (only basic). In this training, students are provided with arduino understanding and trained to develop arduino-based projects (basic, intermediate and advanced projects).

The training will be conducted in Jakarta, Malang and Batu regularly. It is proposed that the training in Jakarta for model schools and non-model schools be conducted twice a week with a schema of full-day training, whilst the training in Malang and Batu is carried out once a week with two full day training schema for each. This schedule is open for discussion and negotiation. However, toward the middle of December 2015, all selected interested students from four model schools are able to produce three different formats of arduino-based projects.

In late November 2015, there will be an arduino competition in Jakarta where some of the selected students participating in the training are invited to join it.

 

B. Objective

This training and competition are primarily aimed to:

·     Introduce arduino to senior high school students

·     Motivate senior high school students by showing what they can actually do with arduino

·     Enable senior high school students to produce arduino-based products/projects which might help their everyday problems

 

C. Scope of Work

The hired consultant is required to do the following tasks:

·     Design and develop three sets of arduino modules for basic, intermediate and advanced levels for the training

·     Facilitate regular training in Jakarta, Malang and Batu

·     Enable participating students to come up with three different formats of arduino-based projects toward the middle of December 2015

·     Conceptualize a schema of arduino competition, including competition challenge and scoring method

·     Write a monthly report outlining progress of student understanding/achievement from the training

·     Write a final report of the training and competition

 

D.  Deliverables and Timeline (it’s tentative, based upon further discussion with the hired consultant)

The hired consultant is expected to come up with the following delivarables:

No.	Deliverables	Timelines
1.	Three sets of arduino modules for basic, intermediate and advanced levels	Basic: 3 October 2015 Intermediate: 17 October 2015 Advanced: 31 October 2015
2.	Weekly arduino training facilitation	1 October – 31 December 2015
3.	Three different formats of arduino-based projects/products students create	1st projects: by 31 October 2015 2nd projects: by 30 November 2015 3rd projects: by 19 December 2015
4.	Conceptualized schema of arduino competition	31 October 2015
5.	Competition facilitation	3 December 2015
6.	Monthly report	31 October 2015 30 November 2015 19 December 2015
7.	Final report	19 December 2015

E. Period of Contract

The hired consultant will come into an agreement with Sampoerna University (SU) – Putera Sampoerna Foundation (PSF) from 01 October to 31 December 2015 (with possibility of extention, depending upon deliverable accomplishment).

 

Please submit your proposal of interest including proposed total budget and CV (or organization profile) to ilan.asqolani@sampoernauniversity.ac.id by Friday, 18 September 2015, 23.59 p.m. (local time). Note that the expected budget should include budget for whole travel expenses. We may only contact you providing that your proposal meets our expectation. 

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